Karen Learn choose Beverly Cannone taken off Brian Walshe homicide case

The Norfolk County choose returning for Karen Learn’s upcoming retrial has been taken off one other high-level homicide case.

Norfolk Superior Court docket Choose Diane Freniere will preside over the Brian Walshe case going ahead, changing Choose Beverly Cannone, in accordance with courtroom paperwork and information experiences.

Cannone, who declared a mistrial within the first Learn trial, had been beforehand assigned to supervise the Learn and Walshe instances, however she acquired a “special assignment” with Learn’s highly-anticipated second trial, scheduled for late January.

Walshe, 49, of Cohasset, is charged with murdering his spouse Ana Walshe, who the prosecutors say he slayed after which reduce up on the primary day of 2023 after which hid her physique components in dumpsters round Better Boston.

Indicted for her homicide, Brian Walshe was sentenced in federal courtroom to an unrelated worldwide artwork fraud case, which he has appealed. He has been detained on the Norfolk Home of Correction since his preliminary arrest.

A listening to is scheduled for Dec. 2 to argue the protection’s movement searching for the cellular phone information of the case’s lead investigator, suspended Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Proctor, whose vile texts had been revealed in Learn’s first trial.

In a courtroom submitting, Walshe’s legal professional, Larry Tipton, requested “a complete copy of all data referred to in the Commonwealth’s notice dated September 6, 2024, described as an ‘extraction of Trooper (Michael) Proctor’s work cell phone’ and ‘Trooper Proctor’s work cloud account.’”